Anti-green alliance is a ragbag – ???? Feedzy

By Chen
Wen-ching ???

Let us imagine a situation where a man is dining at a restaurant. When he orders, he asks for something not spicy. Anything would do, just not spicy. The cook therefore randomly adds all kinds of seasonings in the dish, except chili peppers. The dish comes out sweet, salty and sour. Even some expired ingredients have been added to it. Would you like to try this dish? It is called the “non-green alliance.”

On the surface, it looks like all kinds of groups that oppose the pan-green camp can join and work together, but the alliance is actually a terrible hodgepodge. To put it more straightforwardly, the non-green alliance is rife with conflicts and contradictions between the groups of which it consists. Each group wants to take the lead and no one is willing to play second fiddle. The so-called non-green alliance might soon end up in a series of self-contradictions. Before the alliance has a chance to confront the pan-green camp, it might well start consuming itself.

With “non-green” in its name, the alliance should clarify why it is against the pan-green camp. If the non-green alliance is against “anti-communism” or against “anti-unification,” Taiwanese must express their opinions on these issues.

There are already some conflicts inside the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). It is difficult to say whether the KMT’s New Taipei City Mayor and presidential candidate Hou You-yi (???) can deal with all of the related challenges.

However, the KMT is still attempting to work with the white camp and collaborate with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co founder Terry Gou (???), and whose political attitude is unclear. The KMT is in disarray, and the situation might become even more chaotic.

From the perspective of the white camp, Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je (???) has become the second favorite for the presidency. If Ko wanted to collaborate with someone and form an alliance, he would certainly think about asking Gou rather than Hou, given that Hou’s support rate has been the lowest among the three candidates. Obviously, although the KMT wants to work with the TPP, the effort of bringing the white and the pan-blue camps together appears to be very much a one-sided affair with regard to which party is putting in the most effort.

Be it blue, white or green, every political camp must propose its own concrete agendas to win over voters. A restaurant’s dish must be unique enough to attract customers, but no customer would allow a restaurant to serve a dish that has been cooked haphazardly. Similarly, voters would care about the content of each political camp, rather than agreeing with anything that is non-green.

Chen Wen-ching works in environmental services.

Translated by Emma Liu